Palm Beach Bike Tours

I saw my first LHT in the wild when my Trek 1220 was at Cape Bicycle getting a shifter replaced. I wish I had put the money into an LHT instead of the repair. I really liked the LHT’s look and feel, but wasn’t sure I was ready to buy a new bike.
When I got [...]

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Building a wheel is easy if you know what you’re doing. I don’t, so I turned to Wayne at Bicycle in West Palm Beach when I wanted my SON generator hub built into the front wheel of my new Surly Long Haul Trucker. (Wayne and his shop, Bicycle, are one-name entities, like Cher or Paris.)
I [...]

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To make more room on my Surly Long Haul Trucker’s cockpit, I added a sec0nd stem that holds my Arkel Small Handlebar bag, bell, AirZound horn and my video camera mount.
I described it when I first got installed it and posted links to some other folks who had done it.
Reader wants to know more about [...]

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My kids have heard all the stories about how I delivered newspapers when I was 12-years-old. My route was uphill both ways, covered in ice and snow year-round except for those days when eggs were frying on the pavement. And, of course, I was tough enough that I could do it on a single-speed [...]

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My Australian virtual friend Andrew, AKA Aushiker, just wrote about giving his LHT its 500 km winter service.
Everything checked out OK, except that he noted some rust on two stem face plate bolts.
I wrote back to tell him that mine were showing the same thing and that I’d replace them with stainless steel bolts at [...]

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